(cross-posted from K12 Open Ed) The second annual Open Education Week is this week, March 11-15, 2013. Open Education Week is a five-day celebration of the global Open Education Movement, featuring online and local events around the world, video showcases
Using a G+ Hangout as a Part of a Panel Presentation
I recently helped put together a conference session about the law and filtering that involved a G+ hangout with a panel of remote guests. It took us a while to find the combination of things that worked the best with
An Un-session: Try This at Home
An Un-session: Don’t Try This at Home I did a session with Mike Agostinelli at NCCE 2013 this week about peer learning. I thought I’d try to model peer learning in the session, and the results were quite unexpected and
Scratching the surface
For a long while, I’ve been planning to dive into Scratch, a programming environment where you can make your own stories, games, programs, etc. Now that I’m in the Learning Creative Learning MOOC from MIT, it’s time! Here’s an intro
What about students who don't work well with technology?
Today I had the opportunity to talk about differentiating instruction with a group of educators using mobile technology as a part of ISTE’s Verizon Innovative Learning Schools virtual conference. At the end of the end of this session (with no
Differentiating and personalizing learning
I do a lot of work to help teachers and students differentiate and personalize learning. One thing I know about this is that you need A LOT of content to succeed in doing this. Also, mobile technology makes it a
All teachers deserve to be "connected"
Connected Educator month in August affected me deeply. I consider myself “connected” — I’m on Twitter often; I use other social media tools to collaborate with others; I love online participatory learning. When I have a puzzling problem or a
Ed tech, conferences, and broadening the discussion
I’ve been pretty vocal about my view of conferences in the past. They seem to me to be a less than optimal format of professional development, and I feel inauthentic standing up and lecturing (presenting) about not standing up and
K12 Online – a great learning opportunity
If you don’t know about the K12 Online conference, you should! This year’s conference starts today, but you can participate any time. The K12 Online conference is a progressive professional learning opportunity to engage educators worldwide around 21st century learning.
Kids photo challenge = great fun + creativity + learning
I am a big fan of DS106, the digital storytelling MOOC (group? online course? community? it’s a mix, I guess), and especially of the Daily Create project there, which is a way to encourage myself to create something on a